Has anyone done something simliar to:<br /><br />http://www.eclipseforums.org/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=15<br /><br />where the alt tags are set to the first 100 characeters of so of a post to "preview" it before clicking on it?

I did it here, pretty easy actually. Just add $Body in postlist.php and then add a title tag to the a href line.<br /><br />I did add something to clean up the $Body (strip_tags and htmlspecialcharacters) and then chopped it off at 100 characters.<br /><br />http://www.viperalley.com/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=offtopic

Looks great. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Can you tell if it slows down the page?

Not at all - no additional queries are done and it just adds a title tag to the a href link. I only had to add like 5 lines to postlist.php: <br /> <br />[]SELECT t1.B_Number,t1.B_Parent,t1.B_Username,t1.B_Posted,t1.B_Last_Post,t1.B_Last_Number,t1.B_Last_Name,t1.B_Last_Approved,t1.B_Subject,t1.B_Main,t1.B_Status,t1.B_Approved,t1.B_Icon,t1.B_Reged,t1.B_Counter,t1.B_Sticky,t1.B_Replies,t1.B_Rating,t1.B_Rates,t1.B_RealRating,t2.U_Color,t2.U_Status,t1.B_PosterId,t1.B_File,t1.B_Body[/] <br /> <br />[]list($Number,$Parent,$Username,$Posted,$Last_Post,$Last_Number,$Last_Name,$Last_Approved,$Subject,$Main,$Open,$Approved,$icon,$Reged,$Counter,$Sticky,$Replies,$Rating,$Rates,$stars,$Color,$PostStatus,$posterid,$file,$Body) = $dbh -> fetch_array($sth); <br /> <br /> // ------------------------- <br /> // Standard icon is the note <br /> if (!$icon) { <br /> $icon = "book.gif"; <br /> } <br /> <br /> $Body = strip_tags($Body); <br /> $Body = htmlspecialchars($Body); <br /> if ( strlen($Body) > 100 ) { <br /> $Body = substr($Body, 0, 100); <br /> $Body .= " ..."; <br /> }[/] <br /> <br />down a bit where $postlist is being set, add this above the line that sets $Subject: <br /> <br />[]$postrow[$i]['Body'] = $Body; [/] <br />then this to postlist.thtml: <br /> <br />[]<a href="{$config['phpurl']}/$mode.php?Cat=$Cat&amp;Board=$Board&amp;Number={$postrow[$i]['Number']}&amp;page=$page&amp;view=$view&amp;sb=$sb&amp;o=$o&amp;fpart={$postrow[$i]['fpart']}{$postrow[$i]['jumper']}" title="{$postrow[$i]['Body']}">[/]

Cool! Does it grab the body of the first post? Or the first unread post? It's really cool anyhow it be. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/applause.gif" alt="" />

Okay we sure there is not a step missing <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /><br /><br />I did these simple couple lines and I get no box that comes up when I mouse over them like I see on the example forum.<br /><br />I double checked my copy and paste hacking. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Everything was copied right.

Oh, yes, one more thing.... Down below where the $postrow gets setup; above the $Subject, put this:<br /><br />$postrow[$i]['Body'] = $Body;

I seem to be the one who finds the missing parts <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <br /> <br />Thanx Michaels works very well now.

haha wow, that's too cool <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Very Cool!!<br />This coming out as a finished mod? Seems pretty basic but could use some documentation.<br /><br />For idiots like myself <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Ok got it working.. took me a bit to catch the bold changes <br /><br />This is a cool one for sure!!<br />TY TY TY

This only works properly in flat mode... when it expanded mode it translates the tags to the wrong threads. still like the hack but a fix? or did I miss something

flat mod threaded mod. No such animal here. This is the postlist screen <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /><br /><br />This is not designed to work on replies. (expanded mod)<br />It will work for about two and break. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /><br /><br />I will look into it and see what I can come up with but all in all Michael did a great job. Quite a small mod but very useful and teasing.

I added this alt text code to the search area here while adding another modification. Hope you don't mind. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Slightly off-topic, but is there any limit to the length of the alt or title text?

I looked around w3c.org briefly and didn't find any specific references to the length.<br /><br />Just playing around I believe I got over a 1000 characters into it. (IE 6.0)

I added to the code a bit. I replaced the <br /> tags with new line characters \n before stripping the html so that the tool tip/title display looked more like the actual post. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /><br /><br /><br /><br />

Scratch that. Only IE seems to be able to use the new line characters. Mozilla/Netscape and Opera do not. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Dave_L the size of the "tool tip" varried between IE/Mozilla/Opera. IE was able to display the most.

Thanks, I was just curious. I'm working on something that may put a lot of text there, and I was wondering if there were any sort of specified limit.